Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

I was considering buying one of these from eBay for my 400 mHz iMac DV:
ebay item 5875836815
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5875836815&rd=1&sspag
ename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Ever since I updated my rev 3 iMac G5 from 10.4.3 to 10.4.5 (had to
apply it twice from the hard drive to get email to work again), every
time I repair permissions I get this error message: 'Permissions differ
on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are

A coworker and I tested two iSight cameras at work with iChat.  He used
his .mac account and I used my AIM account and we connected fine.  He
was running 10.4.4 on a G4 tower and I had 10.3.5 on a G4 laptop.
He said when he has tried in the past he cannot make an iChat connection

Running normally ... tonight wouldn't wake from sleep; wouldn't respond
to power button held down to force reboot. I pressed the reset button in
back, that shut it down. Now it won't power up. Nothing.
The heat shield under the keyboard has been very hot to the touch

Hi. I am trying to make sure Postfix is set up correctly so that I can
have Bugzilla send mail to developers. (Apache/MySQL/Bugzilla all
installed and otherwise working properly on a Mac Mini with OS X 10.3.)
Nameserver is the router, which is passing requests to the cable modem,

Basically, I need a new MacBook Pro so I can continue persuing my Ph.D.
in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Virginia Tech.
I am asking for a total of 2000 dollars. I am getting a special student
discount from Apple. If 8,000 people give me a quarter, then I will

I have G4 tower with 500mhz processor.  Didn't seem that slow when I
first used it .. but after a week of using my iBook at 1ghz, I felt the
slowness.  I am thinking of upgrading the processor.  Maybe next year I
will get a new iMac-Intel.

Does anyone actually have WinXP working on WinTel on a G5? If so what
did you do to install it and how long did it take?
I ask this because of my complete frustration and disgust with this
product. I followed their instructions when installing and got no

I've been using MT Newswatcher for usenet reading reasonably happily for
years, at least once I got used to doing things in the MTNW way...
My fingers have been trained to allow me to quickly scan a window
listing messages, and if I don't want to open any, press CMD+A to select

Hey there
I am thinking of buying an iLap. Anyone out there have any experiences
good or bad with the product.
Thanks

I have calibrated the display on this 20" iMac G5, OSX 10.4.5,
as it was brighter and more whitish-looking than I would like,
giving the new profile the name "Alec's calibration".
When all goes well, both this profile and the original "iMac"

Yesterday I had a slightly disconcerting experience, but I couldn't
figure out how to investigate it further. I hope someone here can help.
At one of my office I have an older G4/400 AGP running Panther 10.3.9. I
went to restart it yesterday, and it gave me a message warning me ...

does anyone know how to get rid of the horizontal and vertical scroll
bars that show up only in the mac safari browser for the site
http://www.HomePriceMaps.com ?
the problem doesn't happen with firefox on mac nor on ie or firefox in

On a particular word processing document my printer will not print it
and continually feeds in and kicks out blank pages when I click on
print.  I have to cut off printer to stop it from using up all paper in
feeder. Printer works well with other Appleworks wp and data base

I switched about a year ago, to a 12" G4 iBook that I love.
Just wondering, what text editor do you prefer? I've been using
TextWrangler and like it.
Back in the days of Systems 6 & 7 and I had a couple of Macs at work